What are the odds in favor of drawing a spade and a heart?
Would the odds be 2
Are you asking for a 52 card deck of cards, what are the odds of drawing a spade or a heart?
Yes sorry about that
There are 13 spades and 13 hearts in the 52-card deck (13/52 and 13/52, respectively).
For "either-or" probabilities, you add the probabilities of the individual events.
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To calculate the odds in favor of drawing a spade and a heart, we first need to determine the number of favorable outcomes and the total number of possible outcomes.
In a standard deck of 52 playing cards, there are 13 cards of each suit (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs).
To calculate the number of favorable outcomes, we need to determine how many spades and hearts can be drawn. Since we want to draw one spade and one heart, there are 13 spades and 13 hearts to choose from. We can choose one spade and one heart in any order, so we multiply these two numbers together: 13 * 13 = 169.
Now let's calculate the total number of possible outcomes. In a deck of 52 cards, we can choose any two cards without restriction. This is represented by the combination formula, which is expressed as C(n, r) = n! / (r!(n-r)!), where n represents the total number of items, and r represents the number of items chosen at a time. In this case, we want to choose 2 cards out of 52, so the total number of possible outcomes is C(52, 2) = 52! / (2!(52-2)!) = 52! / (2!50!) = (52 * 51) / (2 * 1) = 1326.
Finally, to calculate the odds in favor, we divide the number of favorable outcomes by the total number of possible outcomes: 169 / 1326 ≈ 0.127 or approximately 12.7%.
Therefore, the odds in favor of drawing a spade and a heart are approximately 12.7%.